Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:51 PM 6/2/96 -0400, you wrote: >I also found out that there is a 24mm lens coming out soon for the M cameras. >Could not find out any details, including price. Yes, that has been coming for several years. The new rumor is a 21 Elmarit with an aspherical element. Arthur Kramer has been talking about aspherical elements on Compuserve, and from what he's saying, there are a whole new generation of lenses coming from many manufacturers in the next 10 years that are going to be so good we can only dream about them at this point. The reason they are going to be so good is that manufacturing aspherical elments is getting easier (Canon has three different manufacturing processes for apsherics) including the 35 Summilux ASPH being the first by Leica that uses a press technique that doesn't require grinding afterwards. The ashperical elements will allow for correction of abberations that spherical elements just can't handle. So we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier